Franz Schulze

Kevin Harrington

Chicago's Famous Buildings

The Farnsworth House

In this critically acclaimed biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the twentieth century. The only child of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he graduated from Harvard, and in 1932 he helped stage the historic International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. A patron of the arts and a political activists who flirted with the politics of Hitler, Huey Long, and Father Coughlin, he went on to create controversial and historical structures such as the Glass House, the Roofless Church, the AT & T Building, the Crystal Cathedral, and many more. Johnson's personal charms paired with his manipulative ploys—like his "borrowing" of designs—shine through in this biography. Drawing on Johnson's correspondence, personal photographs, and speeches, and on interviews with his friends and contemporaries, Schulze fills the biography with fascinating information on the architect's family, travels, friends and lovers, and his many buildings and spaces themselves. Franz Schulze is a professor of art at Lake Forest College. He is the author of Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945, One Hundred Years of Chicago Architecture, and Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography.

Life and Work

Philip Johnson

"In Fantastic Images, critic Franz Schulze presents the first comprehensive discussion of the body of work which has been called, sometimes affectionately and sometimes disparagingly, the "Chicago School" of art. The author considers the work of 28 artists: a diverse group bound together more by attitude than style--by its almost perverse but deliberate inclination to bypass the mainstream of the Paris and New York schools. Mr. Schulze puts the discussion into context by tracing its beginnings in the 1940s through its development in the 1960s and 70s."--Dust jacket flap.

Fantastic Images; Chicago Art Since 1945

Edward Windhorst

Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Co-authored with architect Edward Windhorst, this thoroughly revised edition features new and extensive original research and commentary and draws on the best recent work of American and German scholars and critics. Schulze and Windhorst trace Mies's European career in its progression to avant-garde modernism-where his work was materially rich but of modest scale-to his second m ...

A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition

Mies Van Der Rohe

Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn is world-famous for buildings like Frankfurter Messeturm (1985-1991), Sony Center with the Bahntower, Berlin (1993-2000), airport Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi (1995-2005) and the Veer Towers, Las Vegas (2006-2010). In a luxury edition this book shows in large scale and high-quality photos by the well-known photographer Rainer Viertlbock the increasing international reach of Helmut Jahn s oeuvre, starting in Chicago and the United States in the 1980s and expanding initially to South Africa, then to Europe, with the focus on Germany, and from there via the Middle East to China, Singapore, Japan and Korea.The photos are combined with a comprehensive collection of Helmut Jahn s impressive design sketches. They provide inspiring insights into the development of the buildings and the underlying design process. The drawings present the buildings in their overall context of urban surroundings, the structural features, the proportions and ideas on the materials, not to forget just as clearly outlines of the engineering required for the facade technology and construction work.An essay by architecture historian Franz Schultz explains the meaning of Jahn s oeuvre within the contemporary architecture. An text by Helmut Jahn himself comments the philosophy behind his buildings."

Process Progress

Eindrücke von e. Studienfahrt im J. 1913

Edinburg, Glasgow und Liverpool

Hayden Herrera

Seymour Rosofsky

Des Moines Art Center

Neal David Benezra

Louise Rosenfield Noun

Amy N. Worthen

Christopher D. Roy

This magnificent volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of this museum and art school housed in buildings designed by world-renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier. Illustrated essays cover the history of the Center and its distinguished architecture. Colorplates and commentary present more than 100 masterpieces of 20th-century art and tribal arts.

An Uncommon Vision

Milwaukee Art Museum

This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its new additiion designed by world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, joining the original builing by Eero Saarinen.

Building a Masterpiece

Mies van der Rohe Archive

This biography includes photographs of the architect's drawings, plans, models, and buildings

Franz Schulze

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